Indigo and NNDK 2.6.0.02

[tod]

I've experimenting for a few hours with the Indigo-Eclipse IDE for C/C++ Developers (including Incubating components) release. I started with the 64 bit release but the Run configuration dialog had issues so I quickly abandoned it for the 32 bit release. I'm running on Windows 7 Ultimate 64.

I took three of the four eclipse plug-ins (I didn't move the nbeclipse.doc_2.6.0 folder) from the NBEclipse plug-in folders and put them in the Indigo dropins folder, which as I understand it, is the preferred approach when you can't use a software update site for a plug-in. Things worked pretty well. I decided to install one additional plug-in for support of Mercurial inside Eclipse. Just opening the Help->Install New Software dialog causes problems. If I let is sit for a minute or two I would get out of memory errors. If I kept going I eventually would get out of PermGen space errors and Eclipse would crash.

Removing the NNDK plug-ins allowed me to install the Mercurial plug-in from this dialog with no problem. Then I reinstalled the NNDK plug-ins. After some digging around I changed one setting in my eclipse.ini

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-XX:MaxPermSize=256M
became
-XX:MaxPermSize=512M

and things worked much better. I can now get into the software install dialog and allow it to populate from various sites without crashing. Haven't tried installing anything else. I've also modified other parameters in the .ini so here's the end of my .ini in case it helps anyone else.

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-Dosgi.requiredJavaVersion=1.5
-XX:MaxPermSize=512M
-Xms256m
-Xmx512m
-Duser.name=Tod Gentille

I've been able to build libraries and a NetBurner Device Executable, and download it. The rtl8711.a library appears to be MIA but I wasn't using it anyway so I just removed it from the linker. It's still early in the testing game but so far it looks pretty good for those of us who can't leave well enough alone and just use NBEclipse.